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Assign exchange server by GPO

Use GPO to deploy your exchange server settings using a template profile, so you don't have IT support people to do so when you assign a user to a new computer - or any similar situation.

So a user would usually log on the workstation and start the outlook setup wizard to create the outlook profile. This is when they call your IT support!

But not anymore if you use the magic of GPO and  profile power.

1. You need to create a profile for your organization. Use the info provided by here and there to find out what you want, because you can setup a lot with the profile
2. Place the .prf file somewhere users can read and execute. Netlogon sounds like a nice place for that.
3. Use the custom .adm template below to create a GPO.
4. Of course, don't forget to assign this GPO to your users. You may want to wait a little for the GPO to spread and get applied - or gpupdate at will. It may take 5-15 min on big organization. You may check if the GPO is ready using gpresult in a console.

Custom ADM (NOTE: replace all '|' below with backslash)

CLASS USER

CATEGORY "Outlook Profile"
POLICY "Policy to Create Profile"
KEYNAME "Software|Policies|Microsoft|Office|11.0|Outlook|Setup"
PART "Path to the PRF to create the profile"
EDITTEXT REQUIRED
VALUENAME ImportPRF
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY

Note: MSFT says that if the FirstRun key is present, this GPO would fail. Presumably from a user running Outlook, and then canceling it when they didn’t know how to create their profile and the user will see the standard Outlook Wizard to walk them through setup of the profile.